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leages of into the sea so full of yse as that no 

 shipping cold by any nieanes come neere the same. 

 The lothsome vewe of the shore, and irksome 

 noyse of the yse was such as that it bred strange 

 concelpts among us, so that we supposed the place 

 to be wast and voyd of any sencible or vegi table 

 creatures, wherupon I called the same Desolation ; 

 so coasting this shore towardes the South in the 

 latitude of sixtie degrees, I found it to trend 

 towardes the west, I still follow^ed the leadins: 

 thereof in the same height, and after fiftie or sixtie 

 leages, it fayled and lay directly north, which I 

 still followed, and in thirtie leages sayling upon 

 the West side of this coast by me named Desola- 

 tion, we were past all the yse and found many 

 greene and plesant Ills bordering upon the shore, 

 but the mountains of the maine were still covered 

 with great quantities of snowe, I brought my 

 shippe among those ylls and there mored to refreshe 

 our selves in our wearie travell, in the latitude of 

 sixtie foure degrees or there about. The people of 

 the country having espyed our shipps came down 

 unto us in their canoes, holding up their right 

 hand to the Sunne and crying Yliaout, would 

 stricke their brestes, we doing the like the people 

 came aborde our shippes, men of good stature, un- 

 bearded, small eyed and of tractable conditions by 

 whom as signes would permit, we understoode 

 that towardes the North and AVest there was a 

 great sea, and using the people with kindnesse in 



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